Helminth Fauna of the Golden Hamster Mesocricetus auratus in Brazil

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 21-26

  Pinto, Roberto Magalhães ^a   Gonçalves, Lucineide ^a   Gomes, Delir Corrêa ^a   Noronha, Dely ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCARIDOIDEA; BRAZIL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENTEROBIASIS; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; HAMSTER; HELMINTH; HISTOLOGY; INTESTINE INFECTION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BRAZIL; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; OXYURIASIS; OXYUROIDEA;

EID: 0035293286     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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